Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HERCULES, MY SHIPMATE-Robert Graves-Creative Age Press ($3).
What the Golden Fleece really was-a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was...
In I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, Author Graves brought the teeming life of Rome in the Claudian Age so vividly alive that the books became bestsellers. In last year's not-so-successful Wife to Mr. Milton, his blend of imagination and scholarship projected his readers...
With Hercules and his shipmates, Graves becomes an ancient Greek, moving among demigods and goddesses, myths and monsters with an easy familiarity and a wealth of erudite detail; both sometimes seem too much of a good thing. Atomic-age readers, ill-attuned to the leisurely, formal talk of Myth-Age...
The Argonauts went on without Hercules. But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of Colchis' palace. Then Eros shot Medea, the...